Engineering manager with nearly two decades in media & streaming. I own the end-to-end Media & Digital Infrastructure for the NRL and its 16 clubs — live ingest, encoding, MAM, CDN, CMS, apps, identity and the data/ad stack — and I build video infrastructure in Rust on the side: encoding optimizers, media metadata tooling, and the cloud pipelines that move it all.

A multi-codec convex-hull optimization pipeline that computes per-content bitrate ladders from CRF sweep trial data. It combines shot detection and complexity analysis to drive per-title, per-shot, per-segment, and per-device encoding strategies — minimizing bitrate at any quality target.

Ships BD-Rate computation, VMAF measurement, fixed-ladder comparison, chart rendering, and a browser-based comparison player.

15 workspace crates · H.264 / H.265 / AV1 · Rust

📖 Measure, Don't Guess: Building viser →

A pure-Rust media packager at parity with Shaka Packager for the features production OTT actually uses. MP4 in → CMAF segments out, with DASH + HLS manifests, RFC 6381 codec strings, and multi-input ABR ladders — no ffmpeg, no GPAC, no C/C++.

Full CENC encryption matrix (cenc / cens / cbc1 / cbcs), multi-DRM pssh (Widevine + PlayReady + Common), and crypto-period key rotation — every box differential-tested byte-for-byte against the Shaka Packager oracle and ffmpeg decrypt-verified.

Pure Rust · DASH / HLS / CMAF · MSRV 1.85 / edition 2024

🦀 cargo install sheathe

📖 Packaging the World's Video in Pure Rust →

An audio toolkit for any recording that restores (denoise, de-hum, de-click, de-clip, de-reverb), enhances (de-ess, breath removal, voice isolation, bandwidth extension), and levels (LUFS + peak normalisation) — writing a clean 32-bit float WAV. Works on standalone audio (WAV, MP3, FLAC, OGG, M4A) or the audio track inside a video; video is never required.

No ffmpeg, no C/C++, no system libraries — decoding via symphonia, FFT via realfft/rustfft. Every effect is a plain function over &[f32], so the pipeline drops straight into any Rust program.

Pure Rust · single cargo build · MSRV 1.85 / edition 2024

📖 Catharsis for Noisy Audio →

Image generators are random — eligo automates picking the best output. Give it a prompt and it generates n candidates (a pluggable Backend), scores each against the prompt (a pluggable Scorer), and selects the highest-scoring one. The smallest honest agentic loop: a numeric reward drives a decision.

Ships a Stable Diffusion backend on ONNX Runtime, a CLIP prompt-alignment scorer, no-reference quality scoring, and image-similarity search — with a bounded single re-roll of the worst candidate.

Pure Rust · ONNX Runtime · CLIP · Stable Diffusion

A safe, fast port of MediaInfoLib that reads technical and tag metadata from 177+ audio, video, image, and container formats. A drop-in libmediainfo replacement (C ABI + CLI), differential-tested byte-for-byte against the MediaInfo oracle.

AAC · AC-3 · AVI · AV1 · BPG · CineForm · DTS · DV · FLAC · H.263 · JPEG · MPEG · MP4/MOV · Matroska · MPEG-PS/TS · Ogg · Opus · PNG · ProRes · VC-1 · VP8/9 · WebP · WAV · and more

🍺 brew install vbasky/revelo/revelo

📖 Porting 300K lines of C++/Perl to Rust: a byte-identical MediaInfo replacement →

A typed query builder, a #[derive(SurrealRecord)] macro, schema generation, and Diesel-style migrations — bringing compile-time safety to SurrealDB.

🍺 brew install vbasky/somnia/somnia

📖 A Type-Safe ORM for SurrealDB That Feels Like Diesel →

Brings VS Code's Dark+ and Light+ syntax highlighting to Sublime Text. Installable via Package Control and tested across PHP, JavaScript/Vue, Python, HTML/Blade, CSS/Sass/SCSS/Less, JSON, XML, Markdown, and YAML.

⭐ my most-starred project

A Rust-native interactive notebook with kernel support for Rust, Python, and JavaScript. The entire stack — web server, kernels, wire protocol, and JavaScript engine — is written in Rust. No Jupyter, no external kernel plumbing.

Rust (evcxr) · Python (pyo3/CPython) · JavaScript (boa) · React UI · Axum

Certified Scrum Master · Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science